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In a novel by this author, a woman lifts her head to see a "great map" on a street sign, which she follows back to a supermarket where she had earlier looked for food. In another novel by this author, cross-border travel arranged by the Maphia, spelled with a (20[1])"p-h," eventually allows people to die. This author of Death with Interruptions described how a man is stabbed with a stiletto heel when he tries to sexually assault a girl with dark (*) glasses in a novel whose main characters are initially quarantined in a mental health hospital. (0[1])In that novel by this author, only the doctor's wife does not get (10[1])the titular (10[1])"white sickness." For 10 points, name this Portuguese Nobel Laureate, the author of Blindness. (10[1])■END■

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